A Bibliography of the Writings of John Cowper Powys, 1872-1963
Author : Dante Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Dante Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Chris Baldick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2005-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191537128
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and the ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. This exciting new volume provides a freshly inclusive account of literature in England in the period before, during, and after the First World War. Chris Baldick places the modernist achievements of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce within the rich context of non-modernist writings across all major genres, allowing 'high' literary art to be read against the background of 'low' entertainment. Looking well beyond the modernist vanguard, Baldick highlights the survival and renewal of realist traditions in these decades of post-Victorian disillusionment. Ranging widely across psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, and children's books, The Modern Movement provides a unique survey of the literature of this turbulent time.
Author : Allen Ahearn
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2013-02
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1883060141
An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries-about half are literary titles in the broadest sense (novels, poetry, plays, mysteries, science fiction, and children's books); and the other half are non-fiction (Americana, travel and exploration, finance, cookbooks, color plate, medicine, science, photography, Mormonism, sports, et al).
Author : Harald William Fawkner
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780838632499
Author : Belinda Humfrey
Publisher : Cardiff : University of Wales Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Chris Baldick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0198183100
A major new survey of literature in England during the first half of the twentieth century, Chris Baldick places modernist with non-modernist writings, high art with low entertainment. The Modern Movement ranges broadly covering psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, children's books, and other literary forms evolving in response to the new anxieties and exhilarations of twentieth-century life.
Author : Robert A. Wilson
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1628732423
Modern Book Collecting offers advice that answers all the basic questions a book lover and collector might have—what to collect and where to find it, how to tell a first edition from a reprint, how to build an author collection, how to get the best price from dealers, how to understand the prices and rarity of books, and more. With a handy dictionary of terms used in auction and dealer catalogs and a new section on Internet resources, this is a must-have guide for book lovers.
Author : John Cowper Powys
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : George Thomas Tanselle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : 9780674367616
Author : Joshua Esty
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400825741
This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form--and on the very meaning of Englishness. He ranges from canonical figures (T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf) to influential midcentury intellectuals (J. M. Keynes and J.R.R. Tolkien), from cultural studies pioneers (Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson) to postwar migrant writers (George Lamming and Doris Lessing). Focusing on writing that converts the potential energy of the contracting British state into the language of insular integrity, he argues that an anthropological ethos of cultural holism came home to roost in late-imperial England. Esty's interpretation challenges popular myths about the death of English literature. It portrays the survivors of the modernist generation not as aesthetic dinosaurs, but as participants in the transition from empire to welfare state, from metropolitan art to national culture. Mixing literary criticism with postcolonial theory, his account of London modernism's end-stages and after-lives provides a fresh take on major works while redrawing the lines between modernism and postmodernism.